Erdogan: NATO must resist US Syria plan

The new training program has drawn sharp criticism from Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who warned that Ankara would strangle the SDF's new "terror army" before it is even born.

The SDF is dominated by the Kurdish YPG, and the plan for the force dashes Turkish hopes that the USA would abandon the YPG once the war against Islamic State came to an end.

On Sunday, U.S. -led coalition spokesman Ryan Dillon announced plans to establish a 30,000-strong border security force in Syria with the SDF - a U.S. -backed group drawn up largely of PYD/PKK terrorist elements.

On Sunday, reports cited the USA -led anti-terror coalition as saying that the U.S.is working to form a 30,000-strong border security force, which will be under the command of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrians supported by the U.S.in northern Syria.

The move is part of the United States-led effort against the Islamic State group often called IS.

Last October, Turkey stepped up the pressure on the Kurds in Afrin by deploying troops to northern Idlib province as part of a deal agreed with Russian Federation and Iran that set up a "de-escalation zone" with the aim of reducing fighting between rebel factions and Syrian pro-government forces.

Erdogan on Monday said Turkey had to "nip this terror army in the bud". "What can that terror army target but Turkey?"

Turkey says the YPG is a branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged an insurgency inside Turkey since 1984. Turkey is also angry at the support the U.S. continues to provide to the Syrian Kurdish forces that formed the backbone of the SDS, which led the military assault on Islamic State troops based in Raqqa.

The U.N. said Tuesday that fighting between government forces and insurgents in northwestern Syria has displaced more than 200,000 people since mid-December, including some who had already fled fighting elsewhere.

The Kurdish official in charge of defending the area, Bahjat Abdo, said the bombardment showed "the bankruptcy of Turkish policies in the face of resistance by the people of Afrin".

Both Damascus and Ankara oppose the coalition's proposed border force because they view such trappings of statehood as helping to solidify the Syrian Democratic Forces' hold on the vast tracts of territory it has captured from ISIS east of the Euphrates river. But, he said he had no plans to call the US leader.

Erdogan said that Turkey's armed forces had completed preparations for an operation against the Kurdish-controlled region of Afrin in northwest Syria and the town of Manbij. It said the force could lead to the splitting up of Syria.

The area in question runs along the southern border of Turkey with Syria.

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